1988: U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum says his insistence that large companies be required to give advance notice on plant closings is under fire from his challenger, Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, who says it would jeopardize trade legislation vital to Ohio’s development.

The Mahoning County Health Department hires Matthew Stefanek of Kent as its full time health commissioner at a salary of $32,500.

John Lee DeMain, the young pianist and musical director from Youngs-town, is appointed conductor of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Edward C. Czopur, a 1966 graduate of Ursuline High School, graduates from the Ohio State University College of Law.

1963: Miss Katherine Smith, 89, a retired member of the Rayen faculty who taught Latin, dies of leukemia in North Side Hospital. She had been a patient since May 14.

Christiani-Wallace Circus will perform at the Jacobs Road circus grounds near Lincoln Knolls Plaza featuring 82 performers, 10 elephants and the only trained hippopotamus in the country.

Five members of the North Lima High School cheerleading squad take second prize in competition at Smith Walbridge Midwest Cheerleading Camp in Syracuse, Ind.: Susan Crouse, Gayle Schafer, Janice Gray, Rosana Armentrout and Janice Armentrout.

1938: Phillip C. Nash, president of the University of Toledo, tells 58 Youngstown College graduates that their class stands on the threshold of unprecedented opportunity and prosperity.

Pedestrians who start across the street under a green light have the right of way until they reach the other side regardless of whether the light changes, rules the Ohio Supreme Court.

Betty Jaynes of East Cleveland, a state witness who was one of the last people to see Roy “Happy” Marino alive and was to testify in the murder trial of Herbert Ross, has disappeared.